Les stylistes et photographes de San Francisco : Kelsey McCellan et Michelle Maguire ont collaboraient ensemble autour d’un projet intitulé Wardrobe Snacks. Les deux compères ont assorti pour cette série des tenues vestimentaires avec de la nourriture, telles que des huitres ou des beignets.
The age of autonomous vehicles is upon us and the trucking industry has already caught the self-driving fever! The Volvo Autonomous Trailer AT404 is a bit different from other concepts, however. The driverless design is actually a modular system of multiple containers held together by magnetic force. Each unit can be specialized to hold specific types of cargo. On a trip, sections can be dropped off and replaced an infinite number of times. The modular design also makes the truck as a whole more flexible. Without a single, stiff container, it can bend and move with greater agility!
Designer: David Hwang
Nothing like the stereotypical smell of bongs in dorm rooms, this Boy Smells “Kush’ candle is floral, fresh and crisp. Of course made with cannabis, this beeswax and coconut wax candle also employs suede, white musk, tulip and amber. The resulting……
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The average person experiences dozens of individual itches each day. We’ve all experienced the annoyance of an inconvenient itch — but have you ever pondered why we itch in the first place? Is there actually an evolutionary purpose to the itch, or is it simply there to annoy us? Emma Bryce digs deep into the skin to find out…(Read…)
Le photographe japonais Yuichi Yokota nous avait emmené au coeur de l’hiver finlandais. Cette fois-ci, il nous transporte au bord de la Meguro River, très beau spot pour observer les célèbres cerisiers en fleur le printemps arrivant. Des sujets qui laissent rêveurs. La saison parfaite pour s’octroyer un petit séjour au « Pays du Soleil levant. »
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an interior architect to join Faye Toogood in London, who designed gender-neutral retail spaces for department store Selfridges. More ›
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A shoe with a flip-down heel has won Nike‘s inaugural Ease Challenge, which saw designers come up with footwear innovations for disabled athletes.
The challenge called for ideas that would help people of all abilities to put on, secure or remove their trainers. Its winning design was by Brett Drake, an architectural engineer from Wyoming, who modified Nike’s Hyperdunk shoe so that it is slid into – not pulled on.
“The idea that I could use my passion, problem-solving and engineering expertise to enable others to enjoy movement and sport like I do became great inspiration for my idea,” he said.
His initial inspiration came from snowboard bindings – the part that keeps the feet attached to the snowboard. But it was important to Drake that his design didn’t interfere with the shoe’s original aesthetic, and that he could instead “enhance it” with an entry and exit system that would make the shoes easier for anyone to use.
“This is where the hinged heel came into play,” he said. “By allowing the heel to hinge near the midsole and rotate back, the athlete can then slide their foot into the shoe.”
This hinged heel uses powerful but lightweight magnets to create what Blake describes as a “drawbridge” on the back of the shoe.
According to the designer, the magnets are both light and strong enough to forgo any additional weight while securing the athlete inside the shoe once it is on.
Nike‘s CEO Mark Parker, who was part of the judging panel, predicted that Drake’s design would “make all the difference for athletes everywhere”.
The Wyoming engineer will now go on to work with Nike in prototyping and testing phases, as well as taking home a $50,000 cash prize.
Nike announced its Ease Challenge in October 2016, inviting anyone from the US to propose footwear designs for athletes of all abilities.
Submissions were judged based on not only their ease of use but potential to be implemented across Nike’s various sizes and styles.
“The entries we received were inventive, creative and solution-orientated,” said Jeanine Hayes, Nike’s chief IP officer.
“It wasn’t just about designing a new shoe – we wanted a big idea that would accelerate footwear innovation in a way that makes the seemingly impossible possible for athletes of all abilities.”
Nike, which gained a top 10 spot on the inaugural Dezeen Hot List, recently unveiled a single-layer stretchy hijab that could “change the face of sport for Muslim girls”, as well as an aerodynamic shoe it hopes will get its athletes to achieve a sub-two-hour marathon.
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French architect India Mahdavi has used different shades of quartz to create bold, geometric floor patterns in the womenswear section of historic Berlin department store KaDaWe.
Mahdavi wanted to celebrate the cultural history of the German city with her design for KaDaWe, short for Kaufhaus des Westens, which has been open in Berlin since 1907.
She chose to borrow from the geometric style of the Bauhaus – the famous design school founded by Walter Gropius, as an initiative to integrate artists with craftsmen – and used it for the floor design of the 2,000 square-metre space.
Sweeping black, white and grey stripes of Santa Margherita – a composite stone made from quartz sand and resin – echo the Bauhaus style, creating walkways through the womenswear department.
The different patterns in the stone floor create a varied palette, which is complemented by the other rich textures and materials chosen by the designer.
Pale pink carpeting surrounds the walkways, and is offset by triple-tiered, brass clothes rails in the showrooms. In the changing rooms, block colours of quartz flooring is paired with olive green and dusty pink velvet curtains.
The linear floor motifs give a sense of the movement of the store’s customers, alternating between sharp right angles and curving paths. The quartz patterns continue up the walls, forming the shopfronts of the retail units.
Mahdavi often uses rich colours in her designs. Past examples include the pink interior she created for Sketch restaurant and the pink and yellow interior of the RED Valentino fashion boutique, both in London.
With the busy environment of the shopping centre in mind, her KaDaWe design is also intended to stick out.
“I often exaggerate some of the features specially in the case of a department store where a lot of the design is absorbed by the products and by the people using the space,” said the architect. “One needs to be bold to get your message across.”
“This is a space that defies the traditional codes of the department store and is at once straightforward and luxurious,” she continued. “This place can become a symbol of the renewal and reinterpretation of the ‘department store’ as a concept.”
Rem Koolhaas’ firm OMA is currently renovating the entire of KaDaWe. The firm has re-envisioned the 60,000 square-metre space as four separate entities, with elaborate staircases to unite the quadrants.
Photography is by Derek Hudson.
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The APOLLO 1 smartphone is the latest in the nature-meets-tech trend that elegantly merges raw wood with ultramodern electronics. Its touchscreen display is delicately integrated into the wood body, appearing as though it almost grew that way! The rounded bottom makes for enhanced ergonomics and plays host to an entirely new spinning interface that allows users to navigate through applications quickly and intuitively. With lux metal finishes ranging from gold to blue, it looks as good as it feels!
Designer: Varnicic Branislav
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